I decide to take up papercrafts?
I make a really kick-ass apple pie?
I think that crocheting is a lot more exciting than activism, marching for peace, or recycling?
I still think that stay-at-home moms are the biggest heroes in the world?
I love C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien?
I'm in love with Inspector Morse?
I wear glittery eye-shadow?
I actually WANT to live in traditional gender roles, at least some of them?
I have to call my dad every time I have a problem with my car or my yard?
I worry about my weight, about looking "interesting," about all my grey hair?
pink is my favourite colour?
I cry every time I watch You've Got Mail, mostly because I don't have any interesting "mail"?
although I say I want a career, I secretly envy all my friends with toddlers and houses in the suburbs?
I still believe that an intimate relationship with a man will necessarily make my life more fulfilling?
a president, a King
13 years ago
2 comments:
it's the question isn't it? i haven't quite resolved my answer for myself...hence the split persona. but for me anyhow the answer is in choice. i think true feminism embraces all of these things--but doesn't ascribe to any as dogma. that is, as a feminist you have a right to be the woman who wears stila shadow and pink striped tights and teaches her class at eight am and comes home to cook dinner for her guy if she pleases. i think there's a difference between saying you want traditional roles and instituting legislation that demands women fit into these roles... know what i mean? and whatever the name, anything that goes down that checklist and degrades you for any of those things that make up the beautiful you that drennan is (sorry about the grammar horror here) it's crap. lots of love...
Sure you can, Drennan. On a related note, I'm reading some new books by Susan Howatch. The Starbridge series impressed me with her understanding of the male psyche, but this new series (starts with Wonder Worker) strikes me as much more insistently feminist in its depiction and analysis of human dysfunctions.
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